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Dave Read


Selected Haiku and Tanka...

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she winks
and is gone
crescent moon


​never
inclined towards reckless
adventure
I follow my headlights
into the dark


​​sledding 
to the bottom
of daylight

​              ❊
​smaller
and smaller in
the distance
I watch you leave as
my loneliness grows


​desert palms
the deepening cracks
of my lifeline


drawing
an old year
to a close
the dust that lines
our basement​
​rainstorm 
puddles fill with
rubber boots


​a trail of footprints
across a field of snow
the depth of
his passing
increases with time


​rising
with the woodsmoke
campfire songs

​              ❊
​along with
my best intentions
my clothes
hang on
the treadmill


​twilight
I stand in the shadow
of my children 


​sliding
off our winter
clothes
snowmelt from
the ski hill
​

Selected Haiku and Tanka

work shirt
I button down
​my imagination


the lake
remains as still as
I remember
only my reflection 
indicating change ​


pecking
at something 
dead
the roadside crow
I swerve to miss
​

water drips
through the coffee filter -
the strength
of my convictions
weakens with time


air raid

he targets a dragonfly
with his water gun


after a light

at the end of
the tunnel
he wakes up
in a hospital bed
winter chill
I carry a spider
back outside


leaning in

to the winter
wind
I wipe an icy
tear from my eye


tracing a "V"

in the sand 
the stick
he hit me
with
not deep enough
into the mountains
the places
we know by
their European names

​
cold snap

I turn my collar to
her feedback


the dust

of a country
road
through the window
grandpa spits

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